More on the PMIP Award Process

Throughout the month of October the PMIP Review Committee meet to discuss the PMIP Award process. Out of the Committee came recommendations for the Director of Commerce to redevelop the PMIP Award process (see post from November, 2010). These changes were adopted by the Department and are as of November 1, 2010 enacted.

If you have not already familiarized yourself with these changes, it is recommended that you do so now especially since we are in the midst of our mid-year performance reviews. These changes will impact awards made in 2011.

The Union continues to be interested in how the PMIP is implemented across the Department. Feel free to provide feedback about your experience to your Union Shop Steward (Bill Mandeville) or the staff that work with the steward, Grace Call and Tanya Mercier.

PMIP Award Process

Hello All,

I am the Union representative for the Performance Management Incentive Plan (PMIP) Committee and this post is a review of what the Committee has been up to for the month of October.

Over the past few weeks the PMIP Committee has been meeting to discuss how to improve the PMIP Award process. We met last week to finalize our DRAFT proposal to Management Team and the Director. The Committee has been given a very tight timeline to turn around these recommendations with the Department's intention of implementation by the end of October.

Air Quality and Our New Building

At the 10/14/10 Union/Management Team meeting the Union brought to the attention of Management that there have been a number of people with complaints about nausea, headaches and respiratory issues that they believe are related to either the air quality or lighting in the new building. Some of these people have gone home ill or have worked from home because of the situation.

Management wants to make sure that when these incidents are occurring that staff and AD/MD/Supervisors are filling out incident reports and submitting to HR. We were told that by providing this information to HR, a prompt and consistent response from the Department will occur. So, if you have had these type of incidents or experience these types of incidents please make sure to have the paperwork completed. From what I can tell you should be able to find the incident reports on the intranet at Q:\Intranet\DocLinks\Human Resources\Incident Report

As well, Joe Olson checked with the bldg construction foreman about the “flush-out” of the bldg. He said that on August 11, 2011 they turned the HVAC unit on full blast (air only) and left it running 24/7 until we mvd in on 9/3. As the individual floors were occupied, they moved the HVAC from air only to the regular temperature settings w/engaged cooling/heating. Joe is confident that due to the building owner's management of many buildings for state employees that they are very aware of these types of issues.

Please keep your Union Steward aware of any further issues that come up around this issue.